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Ritesh Nayak
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"A generation is a community of date and space" - Jose Ortega Y Gassett
January 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"You're not afraid of failure. You're afraid of being seen failing. It's a vanity problem. You want to look cool. You want to look effortless, refined. Meanwhile, the master is willing to look like an idiot in the pursuit of excellence. Drop the ego. Be willing to embarrass yourself more often."
January 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday season to everyone celebrating something this year.

What is the best place to discuss building apps that support networking using AT proto? @atproto.com @jay.bsky.team
December 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Your years of experience won’t protect you from a spreadsheet assassin."
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A staggering 12.6 percent of Americans aged 18 to 25 had serious thoughts of suicide in 2024. Report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
October 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Prophecy with no believers is just graffiti
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm not sure what fascinates me more about this image: the QR code to pay for the weighing machine or the fact that you have to duck a bag of Funyuns to stand on the scale.
August 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Digital Alms: Blind beggars with Qr codes on the streets of Bangalore.
August 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
August 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What I imagine when I hear AI researchers talking about Superalignment
August 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Amazon is hiring a Go To Market lead for AGI 😂
August 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Alaska has greenlit a brown bear killing program, believe it or not, so caribou numbers grow so they can hunt them later. Nothing says "first world" like fetishizing the killing of defenseless animals.

alaskapublic.org/news/environ...
Alaska Board of Game approves revived bear-culling program in caribou grounds
The controversial program, aimed at boosting the population of a struggling caribou herd in Western Alaska, had been halted by court rulings because of legal flaws.
alaskapublic.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
August 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Engineering morale must be falling faster than Facebook's user numbers.
July 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
What is your best guess as to the ratio of red-vs-green flags on the platform?
A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups (Angela Yang/NBC News)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
July 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
www.platformer.news/trustcon-tru... by @caseynewton.bsky.social on the state of Trust and Safety in tech.

T&S teams might be disappearing, but there's more work being automated through AI. Govts are getting in on the act and helping create a new narrative around tech & AI safety.
Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence
www.platformer.news
July 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Ritesh Nayak
Revenue Per Employee. www.patreon.com/posts/revenu...
July 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Many things wrong here:

1. Clearly promotional material ends up in Updates rather than Promotions

2. Breaks the unsubscribe pattern set by the same company.
July 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
After failing to convince me to install the app again, Instagram spammed my inbox constantly about what I was missing out on. Unsubscribed from emails only to realize they're spamming me on WhatsApp now.

There's no escape.
July 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Chomsky reminds us, caring about other people is a dangerous idea in America which signals the ongoing drift of the United States from a struggling democracy to an increasingly consolidated authoritarian state.
July 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Took me these many years to realize I have never liked a show with a background laugh track.
July 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Who in Google Pay thought this was a good idea?
July 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM